Retroarch GUI controls broken after update to 4.1.5

[aspiringnobody]

@BuZz

As much as I love libretro, their developers are boneheads.

That's absolutely unacceptable regression. Did they specify what was causing such a code maintenance burden as to require them to drop keyboard support?

I guess I'll look at their git tonight and see about making us a patch for retropie.

Every interaction I've had with their devs has been a disaster. Seriously who would even think that's a good idea?

[aspiringnobody]

@BuZz

Also see if you can tease what their default hardwired config is. It might be easier to just remap all my gpios to different keys to match what they have "decided" is appropriate and then remap through emulationstation so the games work.

sigh

[BuZz]

@aspiringnobody They are implementing an option to enable the old behaviour currently.

I'll find out the controls.

[BuZz]

@aspiringnobody cursor, backspace and enter. Although enter quits currently if mapped to "exit" hotkey, so there are some issues.

[aspiringnobody]

@BuZz

I usually turn the hotkeys off anyway. I just map r3&l3 to the same key and use that to get into rgui.

• Evan

[BuZz]

@aspiringnobody https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/commit/9957099bf0f9568538cf35e3ba6f882b1d552c17 please update from source and try this new setting. I will be adding it later today to the script.

[aspiringnobody]

@BuZz

That seems to do it.

Thanks x10000000 for your help. Please let whatever retroarch dev who got this done that they're super awesome also. Might have to eat some crow on this one they certainly fixed that fast.

• Evan

[BuZz]

@aspiringnobody welcome. twinaphex added it. It's certainly appreciated.

I have updated retropie-setup - it will now set this option to "true" if it isn't already set in the configuration file.

[gaavoid]

Just updated all main packages. Can now exit the retroarch gui using hot key again. 👍

[guakamaule]

@BuZz
Hello, I ve just built a piggrl 2 and have this exact issue:
controls work ok in emulators, i can access RGUI with start (enter)+ select(space) but once in the menu i can only scroll up and down and exit.
I can t validate any line in the menu to access them.

I understand this issue is now fixed but how should I proceed to make these changes happen? ( I m a complete newbie)
should I run "update all packages " from the retropie menu , reinstall a retropie image or delete my current config file?

Mark
Guakamaule

[BuZz]

@guakamaule update all packages